WHO AMONG US HAS THE POWER TO ROUTINELY PLANT FAKE HEALTH-SCIENCE “NEWS” REPORTS IN THE MASS MEDIA?   

© 2001 By Owen R. Fonorow

 

Heart Disease is the number one killer in the United States, not because Science has failed, the cure is known, but because of a deliberate campaign to misinform and mislead the public. Fake health-science “news” reports are now appearing so often in the Press that ordinary people are beginning to take notice.  Planted stories,  resembling a professional CIA- or KGB-style propaganda campaign,  are responsible for the death of at least 1000 Americans every day.  The campaign has been in operation at least since 1984, and it quite probably has roots prior to 1970.[1]  The perpetrators are apparently protected by the First Amendment to the United States constitution.  Save defamation and libel, the American Press can print lies if it wants to.

 

Propaganda masquerading as health-science news is not hard to spot, especially for those with knowledge of the Science behind the success of alternative medicine. The drumbeat that cholesterol is bad,  causes heart disease, and every effort should be made to lower it,  has droned on for more than a decade. This BIG LIE is reinforced daily even though the leaders of the American Medical Association itself cautioned that our fears are misplaced and there is not sufficient evidence to fear elevated cholesterol. [2] Too, we are conditioned to fear fats, favor carbohydrates, and lately fear “antioxidants.”  Most insidious of all, we are being conditioned to fear the most important life giving substance known: ascorbic acid. Vitamin C!   

 

Propaganda artists understand that the bigger, more widely distributed and more bold faced the lie, the more people will believe it. Few substances in the world are safer than vitamin C, but this well established fact has not stemmed recent world-wide health-science “news” scare stories, implying that vitamin C may cause heart disease and cancer!  Not a single one of these reports has been substantiated.[3]  Doesn’t matter. “Vitamin C consumption is down 19% year-over-year,” according to Nutrition researcher and journalist Bill Sardi.  The “terror” campaign works.  The public are now frightened about taking vitamin C! 

 

The Media can and does not act alone.  The “propaganda as news” campaign could not succeed without the tacit support of medical professionals and scientists who know better, and who profit from the ill health of Americans. There is circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy. Medicine and pharmaceutical companies profit from illness. Doctors generally look the other way, or else routinely cite these articles to questioning patients.  Social security programs are facing bankruptcy from servicing the elderly. Recently, funeral homes in Israel complained after doctors there went on strike and the death rate dropped dramatically.[4]

 

We have been examining false health-science “news” stories for years, a few examples are posted at www.PaulingTherapy/BIGLIE.  One objective seems to be to promote dietary behavior that leads to chronic, rather than acute, medical conditions.  Conditions that are normally treated long-term with prescription drugs.  Another purpose is to undermine confidence in cheap, effective alternatives to prescription drugs. Usually this means ridiculing vitamins, but sometimes the campaign attacks how vitamins and herbal products are made, or cite a “lack of regulation.”

 

Another hint who might be behind it all is the obvious secondary objective: Confusion and obfuscation. Keep the public confused and they will tend to rely on their doctors.  Health care costs amount to more than 7% of GDP.  No reason to rock that boat.

 

 

The real science is clear: These propaganda stories, to the extent they reduce vitamin C and other anti-oxidant consumption, will increase the incidence of heart and other chronic disease, creating an economic advantage for medicine. Not all who die are old.  Many heart attack and stroke victims are in their 30s and 40s with families.  According to the American Heart Association, in spite of the decline in heart disease mortality since the 1970s (741,000 in 1970 to less than 500,000 in the year 2000), more than 1000 people die every day in the USA of some form of heart disease. [5]

 

When you profit from sickness, your marketing department will sooner or later figure out how to make people sick. One unfortunate way to view the steep decline in heart disease mortality rate since 1970[6], if you are a marketing type for a hospital or cardiac drug maker, is a revenue and profit disaster.  The revenue hemorrhage for heart surgeons, cardiologists, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies (especially those who make high-profit cholesterol lowering prescription drugs) is staggering.  From 250,000 to 650,000 more people would have been expected to perish last year. The (lost) profits, had the expected heart disease mortality rate continued to rise after 1970 per the 60 year trend, is in the billions!   Think of the great marketing problem if a cure had been invented that does not require either a prescription drug or a doctor! (It has!) 

 

Fortunately, the cause and cure for heart disease is simple.  The true nature of heart disease, a simple vitamin C deficiency, was recognized in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[7]  Linus Pauling claims to have written his first book on Vitamin C to counter misinformation in the media in the late 1960s.[8]  Pauling invented his putative cure for heart disease in 1993.[9]  The BIG LIE campaign to discredit Pauling, and reduce the daily consumption of vitamin C, will inevitably lead to higher rates of heart disease and mortality. The only reason you do not know this already is because individuals in positions of trust, hiding behind the First Amendment freedoms afforded to our press, promulgate false information.  The Press, whom we rely on to ferret out corruption, has become the greatest malfeasant of all.

 

We suspect, economics being what they are, that the motivation behind the BIG LIE campaign is self-preservation.  For an industry that feeds on illness, the realization that Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath are right, that there is no longer any reason for the million annual heart operations, or for taking billions of dollars of dangerous cholesterol lowering medications, was a transformation that had to be resisted at all costs.  This realization is the only logical reason human beings would dare risk causing such massive suffering among their fellow men and women.

 

While we can not pinpoint specific individuals behind the genocide, recent events provide a clue to the morals and ethics of the CEOs of large combined pharmaceutical and vitamin companies. This year the US Justice Department and the Governments of many other Western Nations levied multi-billion dollar fines against those companies that illegally entered into the so-called “Vitamin Cartel” and admitted fixing vitamin prices. The pharmaceutical multinational corporation Hoffmann-La Roche, BASF, Rhône-Poulenc and other multinational pharmaceutical companies have now admitted to criminal price fixing for vitamin raw materials. These international companies have divisions that manufacture synthetic vitamins as well as pharmaceuticals.   

 

The US-justice departement declared that this Vitamin-Cartel was the largest cartel ever discovered and named it an economic “conspiracy“. Roche, BASF and the others cartel members agreed to pay almost a billion dollars in fines for committing these crimes. One of the smaller companies provided “states evidence” about the price fixing, in return for leniency.  [10]

 

According to the Matthias Rath web site,  this cartel formed after Dr. Rath briefed the heads of these pharmaceutical/vitamin manufactures about the true nature and cause and of heart disease. Rath maintains that after he provided them with proof that CVD is essentially a vitamin C deficiency disease, these companies began to organize the now infamous “Vitamin Cartel.”

 

Hoffmann-La Roche is the largest vitamin C producer in the world. According to  Dr. Rath, he originally approached the Presidents of these companies thinking that he might encourage them to increase vitamin C production and to help him inform the public. Rath was shocked to discover that they did the opposite.   In order to preserve the higher profit margins of other divisions, e.g. the cholesterol lowering drug divisions, says Rath, the heads of the major companies instead conspired to raise the prices of vitamins.  According to Rath,  this price fixing was to discourage the use of vitamins, in favor of cholesterol lowering medications, and to increase profits should the truth about heart disease become widely known. [10]

 

Now that this conspiracy is out in the open, we have an insight into the thinking, morals and ethics of the leadership of the largest pharmaceutical/vitamin companies in the world.  Fortunately for humanity, but unfortunately for these huge companies, the cure for heart disease is cheap and plentiful.  As this becomes generally well known via the Internet, you may do well to find an opportune time to unload pharmaceutical stocks or mutual funds.

 

It is worth noting that the CIA was strongly influenced at its inception by intelligence experts recruited from NAZI Germany.[11]  Much as been written about how the CIA and other intelligence communities routinely use Media campaigns to shape public opinion against foreign governments, or to protect clandestine operations.  Propaganda disguised as news. We know the intelligence communities have Media contacts. The Media has been conditioned, probably flattered by the attention and “inside” sources, and has not resisted.  We would not be surprised to learn that former intelligence operatives, after leaving the CIA, have found lucrative work at pharmaceutical companies.  The campaign from a technical standpoint has been outstanding.  These people are good.   Perhaps some day one will come forward and blow the whistle?

 

The Media can not escape responsibility. Whether Media moguls are orchestrating the grand deception, or are unwitting accomplices  being manipulated or relying on expert sources and opinions,  the end result is the same; a massive loss of life and untold suffering. A school child could check the accuracy of many of these planted health-science stories. A cub reporter could balance these negative reports with hundreds to the contrary. No, reporters can not simply hide behind their laziness or ignorance. According to author and former journalist Arline Brecher, tremendous advertising revenues can and do influence Editors to look the other way. [12] Bribery can not be ruled out.

 

The great problem facing humanity is how to stop or counter this long running BIG LIE campaign.  It is not a simple thing.  The coffers of huge companies that profit from human suffering and death is enormous, thanks in large part to the campaign itself that we now expose and that effectively promotes and protects their products.  As long as the Media is unable or not willing to tell us the truth, millions of their fellow citizens will continue to suffer and die prematurely.  Mediacide has cost the USA trillions of dollars in unnecessary health care expenditures.

 

Recently the campaign has gotten bolder. Perhaps those behind the campaign have gained confidence that these lies will go unchallenged.  Or they have become stupid.  As the planted stories become more shrill,  appear too often and are harder to believe, we can hope the public will finally wake up and become the force that vanquishes these fake-news campaigns from the face of the Earth.

 

REFERENCES

 

1. Assault on Medical Freedom,  P. Joseph Lisa, Hampton Roads Publishing, 1994. ISBN 157174-003-1

2. AMA News Conference June 1998  Also see: Lipid-Lowering Therapy in Low-Risk Patients Thomas A. Pearson, JAMA Vol 279, No 20, April 27, 1998 

3. Vitamin C Foundation. See: www.vitaminCfoundation.org/rebuttal.html for summary of current scare stories and reasoned rebuttals.

4. Doctors' strike in Israel may be good for health, Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , Jerusalem See: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7249/1561

5. American Heart Association on-line: See: http://www.americanheart.org/Health/Lifestyle/Statistics/HowToUse/index.html

6. Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease and Acute Myocardial Infarction --- United States, 1998. Mortality Rate Since 1900.  See: http://cisat.isciii.es/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5006a2.htm

7. A Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease Leading the Way to the Abolition of This Disease as a Cause for Human Mortality, Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath.  See: http://www.orthomed.org/links/papers/rathpau.htm

8. Linus Pauling in his own Words. Edited by Barbar Marinacci, Simon & Schuster, 1995, ISBN 0-684-80749-1

9. Pauling Therapy web site:  See:  www.PaulingTherapy.com

10. Dr. Matthias Rath web site: See:http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing- internet/network/health_system/uk

/busting_cartell.htm

11. CIA Admits Nazi Connection.  Robert Ledermen. See: http://baltech.org/lederman/CIA-923.html

12. Forty Something Forever,  A Counsumer’s Guide to Chelation Therapy and other Heart-Savers, Harold & Arline Brecher,  Heathsavers Press, 1998, ISBN 0927839-46-6